- More modern-looking selection rectangle.
- Improved horizontal/vertical distribution of controls.
- New ResetList method.
- Vertical alignment for labels.
- Beginning of Undo/Redo procedures.
- Hotkey indicators reviewed.
- Add an Open "dialog" to the editor: a hidden frame with file browsing capabilities to load a form. Code taken from ide_methods.bas (QB64)
- Add a New option to File menu.
- Remove custom icon from the preview so that QB64's default icon is shown unless an icon file is specified.
- Detect if a control name matches QB64's keywords (not allowed).
- Make control IDs more user friendly by encapsulating them in an easily recognizable variable.
- Trigger __UI_TextChanged with backspace and delete as well.
- Indicate in the title bar that a form was edited (*).
- Only show confirmation at exit if form was edited.
- If the preview app is launched by the user, a new messagebox informs that the main app must be launched.
- $SCREENHIDE until the form is defined.
- Set _ICON even if no icon was set, so that at least the QB64 is brought in.
- Minimizing the editor will also minimize the preview (Windows only).
- Fix position of menu separators.
- Make hotkeys always visible in Design Mode.
- Add a call to __UI_MakeHardwareImage for frames (fixes a bug that wouldn't show resize handles for frames or its contained controls).
- Show "Add new" in the menu bar and in menu panels if in Design Mode.
- New Align menu, for when the preview window is too small to display the contextual menu.
- The Align menu is automatically opened when the user right clicks the Preview Window, if it's too small.
- Less calls to __UI_GetID inside event procedures.
- A message box now asks user if the current form should be saved upon exiting.
- Display the project's name in the Title bar.
- Display the container's font if a control with the same font is selected.
- Properly enable/disable options when menu bar/menu items are selected.
- First property shown is now Caption, as the new AutoNameControl feature will automatically rename based on captions.
- New event: __UI_TextChanged (for textboxes).
- Color Mixer textboxes are now editable (they were editable before but they didn't trigger a change in the sliders' values).
- $RESIZE is saved within the .frm file, if CanResize is enabled.
- Padding is now properly saved for controls that have it set.
- Communicate to the preview app that a context menu doesn't fit the current window.
- Receive from the preview app Align commands.
- Add option to Align centers, vertically and horizontally, to Design Mode.
- Bypass screen redraw if Window is minimized.
- Properly recalculate menu bar's height.
- Properly recalculate tooltip's height.
- Properly recalculate menu panel's height.
- Properly align text inside controls.
- Allow hotkeys to invoke contextual menu items in Design Mode.
- Fix centering of controls inside frames.
- Restore and keep aspect ratio of picture boxes when resizing by the corners.
- Bypass contained controls when selecting with drag-to-select.
- Auto-set Stretch property for new PictureBox controls.
- Accept "new menu bar" and "new menu item" commands.
- Automatically adapt menu bar when form colors are changed.
- Automatically adapt menu bar when form font is changed.
- Fix font height for _FONT 8 and _FONT 16.
- Control names can now have only up to 40 characters to prepare for "Control.Property" syntax.
- Default font set to SegoeUI (editor and preview).
- Improved design mode context menu (Distribute Vertically/Horizontally).
- When designated .TTF font can't be found, new default is _FONT 8.
- Improved ControlName search to avoid duplicated names (__UI_NewControl).
- Trim controls' captions if CHR$(0) is found.
- Segoe UI is now used as default font for new forms.
- Fix: preview window now properly reloads if inadvertenly closed.
- Internal contextual menus are not saved any longer.
- Design mode now has a contextual menu for alignment and clipboard operations.
- Fix: Menu bar items can't be invoked by hovering if a context menu is active.
- Selection rectangle for Design Mode.
- New Event: __UI_BeforeInit
- Fix: Crash after last control is deleted in Design Mode - limits the use of hardware images.
- Single line textboxes can now use non-fixedwidth fonts.
- ESC unselects all controls (design mode)
- Pasting the same control over and over positions the new instance in a different spot.
- New controls are created after all controls in the array; empty slots will occur, but it fixes incorrect creation of new controls.
- New listbox method: __UI_GetListBoxItem$
- Fix: selecting a listbox item by typing its name now properly triggers __UI_ValueChanged event.
- Adds padding (left/right) to labels.
- Adds multiline support for textboxes.
- Improves wordwrapping for labels - bypasses the function if the same text passed has already been processed for the same width and _font conditions.
- Restores internal textfield contextual menu.
- Textfield contextual menu limits options based on clipboard/selection status.
- Creates a new helpercanvas automatically upon creating a new picturebox control.
- New ReplaceText function which enables \n for adding items to a listbox at design time.
UiEditor.bas:
- Indicator on textbox shows if current input value has been accepted by the Preview renderer.
- Improves saving of nested controls.
- New "icon" property for the main form.
UiEditorPreview.bas:
- Loads the icon specified in the editor and shows it in real time (.ico files encoded as bmps and pngs accepted).
- Fix the bug the didn't allow controls placed in frames to be selectable when they had been created before the frame.
- Add "\#" automatically to ProgressBar's caption, so Show Percentage will work.
- Allow preview to be detached from the editor window.
- Checked items in menus.
- Show message while compiling the Preview component.
- New controls are placed inside the selected frame.
- Fixed selecting text when textbox is inside a frame.
- Fix detection of Preview window and the relaunch routine.
- Make frames always be redrawn in DesignMode.
- Context menu for textboxes will be embeded automatically, though the user may replace it with a custom control.
- Fix MessageBox incorrectly mixing title and message.
- MessageBox uses main form's title if no title is provided.
- New event __UI_ValueChanged.
- Focus outline (dotted line around control) is only shown if keyboard input is received.
- Adds NotoMono-Regular.ttf (licensed under the SIL Open Font License)
- Fix save routine to properly save the .Stretch property of controls.
- Fine adjustments to ProgressBar drawing.
- Find adjustments to ListBox/Scrollbar drawing.
Create a new button and it'll be automatically named Button1. Also:
- All existing controls are properly destroyed when loading a saved form.
- Fix hovering to select that stopped working for dropdown lists.
- List or Dropdown list controls have their __UI_Caption set based on the selected item, if any.
